The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Mr. CLEvELAND's intellectual horizon seems
not to extend further than his nose.-Philadel-
phia American.
THE logic of the Presidents letter: don't
care a snap about the shooting of Ct. c., but
must protect the President from being made q
target.-Boston Journal
"MR CLEVELAND does not seem to understand
the spirit OF the American people" says the
New York World. That appears to cover the
case-D1ilwaukae Sentinel.
JACOB SHARP's iurymen are petitioning that
he be let off with light fine because he is be-
lieved to be dying. Did not Jacob know whom
he committed his crime that he liable to
die2-Philadelphia Inquirer.
MEN who sent substitutes to the army and re-
fused to pay them. and men who are Scared all
over with army contracts are not the kind OF
men TO make Presidents Of This is an entirely
non partisan itefn.-Chicago Mail
SECRETARY ENDICoTT is still angry at the COR
respondents who mixed him up in the flag folly
There are some things that even an uncomplain-
ing mugwump can't stand under tom-fool ad~
ministration. Philadelphia Press.
If Sharp should by any mischance escape the
full penalty of his misdeeeds there would not
be a boodle-stained alderman in Sing Sing in
Canada who could not with better grace claim
equal ndugence.-Phiadelphia Record.
THE man who served in the war as q substi-
tute for Grover Cleveland should also be per-
suaded to repr, sent that gentleman at the st.
Louis encampment It would be a satisfactory
arrangement all Observation-Disclosures Press
THE trouble with Mr.. Cleveland is that he has
no instinct of patriotism. no high ideal of loyal
ty. and not one throb in sympathy with the
herosm and the devotion which crushed out sla-
very. emanNipated q race and saved the Union.
Utica Herald. ~ Us
OUR tariff system is the best thing for our
laboring men and the plotting out of the
ceipts from the internal revenue would take
away from the free-traders the only argument
that they have advanced. that the surplus needs
to be reduced.-Boston Record.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the urging Of the Ohio
Democrats, Judge Thurman firmly retains his
opinion that he is not called upon to pull that
party out of the mlre into which it fell when
they threw him overheard to after the coal
oil barrels. -Pittsoure Dispatch.
THE prospects that the Republican party will
carry least three states in the South in 1888
Presidential canvass since 1876. Every unbiased
person, South as we'll as North, Democrat
we'll as Republican,, knows this to be true-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
In slurring the Grand Army members an ex-
confederate newspaper speaks of them Tex
Unionists." But they are the men who, Gov
ernor Morton said, were on the right side in the
would thousand times rather be right than be
in President Cleveland's shoes Cincinnati Com.
mercial Gazette.
Nor while single veteran Of the war re-
manned alive, not while single pension was
payable to the widow of ono who fell in the Ma
tons service, not while q dollar Of the debt in
Cured in the suppression of the rebellion
manned unpaid, not while ona of the laws en-
acted for reconstruction OF thu Union was still
violated. would party 1T for public trust have
nominated . candidate who had sympathy
with the suppression of the rebellion. Tho facts
irritate Democrats because they place that
party In its true light.-New York Tribune.